Yankee Report: Road Map to Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Defining the Role of IMS, TISPAN and Next-Generation IP Transport
Business model transformation remains the single most important trend among all types of communications service providers worldwide. Whether the company is thought of today as an incumbent telco, a cable multiple system operator (MSO), a wireless operator or a content provider, demand for premium, real-time content and communications delivered to any device over any access medium drives service providers to embrace new business models. An expanding competitive landscape and declining revenue from legacy services augment service providers’ motivation to transform their business.

Yankee Report: Broadband Aggregation Architecture Choices Have a Significant Impact on the Profitability of Triple Play Services
As expectations of broadband service profitability intensify, service providers worldwide must examine the cost structure of a wide range of network architectures and operational models. A thorough assessment is a challenging task because architectural approaches to building broadband networks vary considerably from the first mile to the aggregation layer and into the core.

Heavy Reading: Assuring Quality of Experience for IPTV
The year 2006 marks a time in which the IP television (IPTV) market is moving into the critical second phase of large-scale commercial deployments across many regions. This may vary between carriers and geographies, but as a whole, service assurance and quality of experience (QOE) largely define this evolution. Each phase is tightly coupled with ongoing underlying technology evolution, content acquisition, and scaling the overall number of IP video subscribers.

Heavy Reading White Paper: Beyond High-Speed Internet (HSI): Re-inventing the BRAS
Service providers are in the midst of intense competition to hold on to existing customers, attract new customers, and increase their average revenue per user (ARPU). As a result, they have embarked on plans to deliver a full set of triple-play services over next-generation broadband networks. As triple-play services become a reality, next-generation broadband access, aggregation, and edge networks will be the cornerstone of their reliable delivery. New services, such as IP video, are changing the dynamics surrounding quality of service (QOS); scaleability; element, service, and subscriber management; policy control; high availability; security; and other key broadband network requirements.

The Quest for Triple Play Profitability The Financial Impact of Architecture Choices: Comparing Distributed versus Decentralized BRAS Architectures
Service providers are establishing the new service delivery infrastructure for their service rollouts over the next five to ten years, for both the consumer and business markets. The infrastructure needs to be highly flexible, service-rich, dependable, and most importantly, cost optimized. This white paper quantifies the significant total cost of ownership (TCO) differential that can result from architectural choices for triple play rollouts and demonstrates that a distributed architecture enables optimized cost structures by distributing policies and services across the network.

Optimizing the network architecture for Triple Play White Paper
Service providers are racing to take advantage of the rapidly-developing market for Triple-Play services. Their challenge is to find a way to progressively integrate these new services, over both fiber and copper, within a unified Ethernet-based aggregation network that offers scalability at optimal cost. The goal is to build a service-rich and robust environment that can seamlessly scale to support the flawless delivery of high-definition TV and video applications, in addition to voice and high-speed data services and the solution is the Alcatel’s Triple- Play Service Delivery Architecture.

Operational Excellence in Triple Play Service Delivery White Paper
This paper examines the drivers, challenges and opportunities of introducing triple play services over a converged IP-based infrastructure and the enabling role of policy-based subscriber service management in meeting the associated operational requirements.

Assured Quality of Experience Maximizing profits through service reliability Application Brochure
In the face of relentless competition, service providers are turning to a new wave of next generation IP-based services to retain customers, increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and attract new customers. As service providers roll out triple play, premium VPN and media-rich wireless services, and continue with plans to converge these services over an IP/MPLS network, assuring the highest quality of experience is critical to meeting business objectives.